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$1.5 Million Settlement in Alabama Probation Officer's Sex Scandal
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2009
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2009, page 2008
$1.5 Million Settlement in Alabama Probation Officer's Sex Scandal
A $1.5 million dollar settlement has been reached in a lawsuit claiming an Alabama probation officer raped a female probationer and made inappropriate sexual advances towards eleven other female probationers.
The complaint in the action made claims against probation officer Anthony ...
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